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Martin Fowler and Dan North Point Out a Yawning Crevasse of Doom
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Martin Fowler and Dan North Point Out...

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Summary In this presentation filmed during QCon London 2007, Martin Fowler and Dan North talk about the communication gap existing between the developers and the customers or users. Closing this ga... read more »

Level: advanced Aug 17, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Mock Roles Not Object States
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Mock Roles Not Object States

Summary In this presentation filmed during QCon London 2007, Nat Pryce and Steve Freeman talk about TDD using Mock Objects. In their opinion, Mock Objects improves the software design and makes the... read more »

Level: advanced Aug 11, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Developing Expertise: Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep
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Developing Expertise: Herding Racehor...

Summary In this presentation made during QCon 2007, Dave Thomas talks about expanding people's expertise in their domains of interest by not treating them uniformly as they had the same amount of k... read more »

Level: advanced Jul 30, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Cluster Your JVM to SIMPLIFY application architecture
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Cluster Your JVM to SIMPLIFY applicat...

Summary Open Terracotta is an open-source, highly scalable, JVM-level clustering solution. As well as being a drop-in replacement for Tomcat Clustering, it can transparently cluster POJOs and Sprin... read more »

Level: advanced Jul 12, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Availability & Consistency
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Availability & Consistency

Summary When we move to distributed architectures for scalability and/or fault-tolerance reasons we are also introducing additional complexities. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels dives into the different p... read more »

Level: advanced Jul 12, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Meeting the Usability Challenge
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Meeting the Usability Challenge

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Summary Although nearly everyone acknowledges the importance of user experience, usability often ends up pushed to the back of the queue. How then can we know whether what we are delivering makes s... read more »

Level: advanced Jul 08, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Mongrel, 2500 Lines, and Economics
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Mongrel, 2500 Lines, and Economics

Summary In this presentation @ QCon London, Zed Shaw explains the impact Mongrel's 2500 lines of code have had. He also goes into what makes a project successful (good documentation, make the produ... read more »

Level: advanced Jul 04, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Agile Project Management: Lessons Learned at Google
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Agile Project Management: Lessons Lea...

Summary A retrospective on Google's first Scrum implementation. Jeff Sutherland visited Google to do an analysis of the first Google implementation of Scrum on one of their largest distributed proj... read more »

Level: advanced Jul 04, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
The Amazon.com Technology Platform: Building Blocks for Innovation
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The Amazon.com Technology Platform: B...

Summary In this QCon presentation, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels explains how Amazon has become a platform provider, and how an increasing number of diverse businesses are built on the Amazon.com pl... read more »

Level: advanced Jul 01, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Introduction to Visual Studio Team System
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Introduction to Visual Studio Team Sy...

Summary The goal of VSTS is to provide a tool that is not prescriptive and highly customizable for managing the software development process. Kevin Jones provides a soup to nuts framework for utili... read more »

Level: advanced Jul 01, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk